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bman2 wrote: 2 years ago I’ve just seen that Juve is literally in the relegation zone. Obviously it’s just a few games in, but they’re really struggling, and can barely score. Bit weird that, because the pundits told us that Ronaldo was holding Juve back, despite being the league’s top scorer. Shouldn’t they be great now? Meanwhile, we’re near the top of the table even though we only really played well in our first game of the season. Turns out scoring goals is actually useful and has some say in how well a team does.
Lol, yeah.
Selling Ronaldo is never a good idea, even financially.
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The reason we signed Ronaldo:

Manchester United’s share price has increased by $2.24 (£1.65) since Cristiano Ronaldo signed on 27 August, meaning the 9.5m shares sold by the Glazers in the past 24 hours were worth $21.3m more.

https://www.theguardian.com/football/20 ... dApp_Other
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...good to know the owners won't go hungry.
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Sid wrote: 2 years ago The reason we signed Ronaldo:

Manchester United’s share price has increased by $2.24 (£1.65) since Cristiano Ronaldo signed on 27 August, meaning the 9.5m shares sold by the Glazers in the past 24 hours were worth $21.3m more.

https://www.theguardian.com/football/20 ... dApp_Other
Aren’t they also starting to sell some of their shares too? It’s almost like insider trading, sign Ronaldo and shoot the share price up and then start selling some shares.
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fat maradona wrote: 2 years ago
Sid wrote: 2 years ago The reason we signed Ronaldo:

Manchester United’s share price has increased by $2.24 (£1.65) since Cristiano Ronaldo signed on 27 August, meaning the 9.5m shares sold by the Glazers in the past 24 hours were worth $21.3m more.

https://www.theguardian.com/football/20 ... dApp_Other
Aren’t they also starting to sell some of their shares too? It’s almost like insider trading, sign Ronaldo and shoot the share price up and then start selling some shares.
That’s an interesting point.
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We’ve lost half our games since Ronaldo joined us.
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bman2 wrote: 2 years ago We’ve lost half our games since Ronaldo joined us.
We've got a problem here. In a side like City, that dominates games, he'd be fine. But with us, we're just not set up to really play to his strengths. You can see how pissed off he is. With Cavani, he presses from the front. With Ronaldo, everything is at walking pace, and we lack the technical ability in defence and midfield to play slow tempo, controlled football.

And I worry about whether he's too big for some others in the dressing room.
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JoelfuckingGlazer wrote: 2 years ago
bman2 wrote: 2 years ago We’ve lost half our games since Ronaldo joined us.
We've got a problem here. In a side like City, that dominates games, he'd be fine. But with us, we're just not set up to really play to his strengths. You can see how pissed off he is. With Cavani, he presses from the front. With Ronaldo, everything is at walking pace, and we lack the technical ability in defence and midfield to play slow tempo, controlled football.

And I worry about whether he's too big for some others in the dressing room.
I don’t just want to blame it all on Ronny. But whatever transfer strategy we had obviously got thrown by the wayside when we signed him. We did not need another forward. He probably could have been great for City, but I don’t think you should ever sign someone to stop someone else signing them. We could have Greenwood having a breakthrough season up top, with another space available for Sancho or someone.

In other news, Lindelof was good yesterday, our only player who did well, except De Gea. Maguire looks good when he’s in a back three that sits deep, like England and Leicester play, but he hasn’t got the quality to be in a title-winning back two. The hype would have you think that, already in his mid 20s, he suddenly became good enough to go from the Championship to champions league…
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Fundamentally, we just have no ideas. Ole has stuck to the same formation and, as much as he could, the same starting line up for three years. The only answer to playing badly is always buying more players.
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JoelfuckingGlazer wrote: 2 years ago
bman2 wrote: 2 years ago We’ve lost half our games since Ronaldo joined us.
We've got a problem here. In a side like City, that dominates games, he'd be fine. But with us, we're just not set up to really play to his strengths. You can see how pissed off he is. With Cavani, he presses from the front. With Ronaldo, everything is at walking pace, and we lack the technical ability in defence and midfield to play slow tempo, controlled football.

And I worry about whether he's too big for some others in the dressing room.
Including Ole
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